Feng Jingyao fell to his knees on the ground, with chains and ropes wrapped around his body. His hands and feet had no strength and could not struggle. He cursed loudly: "A tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by a dog. You rat-dog people, who are you relying on?"
You want to arrest grandpa for no reason, where is the justice?"
Su Jin almost laughed out loud. Feng Jingyao may still have some illusions, thinking that the evidence has not been leaked yet, so he still has to fight to the death. No wonder he looks so arrogant; so many relevant officials were arrested in the jail last night, but this person didn't even look at it.
It's so sad that it's starting to show up. High-speed updates
Song Xiang was shocked and yelled: "Prisoner Feng Jingyao, how dare you talk about justice? I already have conclusive evidence for what you did. I want to ask you, what have you done since you came to Yangzhou sixteen years ago?"
What did you do? How much have you corrupted and bribed all previous Yangzhou government officials, and you still haven’t recruited them from the ground up?”
Feng Jingyao sneered and said: "If you want to incriminate yourself, why bother? I have never bribed Yangzhou officials. Since I came to Yangzhou, I have built bridges and roads to help the common people. Although I dare not be called a great benevolent person, I have also spent a lot of money to help the people of Yangzhou."
You have done some good things. When you, the governor of Song Dynasty, first took office, you also invested in repairing the official road of the East Gate Wharf and played a role in smoothing the water transportation. Even at that time, you also called me a great benefactor in public. How could you turn around in a blink of an eye?
He suddenly changed his face, and after getting political achievements for you, he crossed the river and burned bridges. He is indeed an upright and upright magistrate of the Song Dynasty. Bah! He is worse than a pig or a dog."
Song Xiang's face turned green and red, and said angrily: "At this moment, I was deceived by you. When I first came to Yangzhou, how did I know that you were committing crimes in private? In addition, the officials who colluded with you arrested you in front of me.
To say it's like a flower is because I was deceived by you guys."
Feng Jingyao said: "Deceived? Didn't you see me paving roads and building bridges with your own eyes?"
Song Xiang said: "How can a small kindness cover up a big mistake? Your hoarding and colluding with officials to plunder has already made people and gods angry in Yangzhou. Some of your good deeds are used to confuse people's eyes and ears. How can paper cover the fire? What else do you have to say today?
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Feng Jingyao said: "I am not guilty. I have never done anything you said."
Song Xiang reached out and picked up a stack of paper on the case and said: "You still want to quibble, what do you think this is? This is evidence that you have set up a seductive trap to control the main officials of Yangzhou Prefecture. The officials above are here for you."
You held them hostage and wrote dozens of confessions; you also tried to lure Special Envoy Su into your trap, but Special Envoy Su was smart and resourceful and not only escaped the trap, but also followed the clues and killed you all. What else can you say?"
Feng Jingyao was stunned. He never expected that these confessions would actually fall into the hands of the government. He trusted Mihua very much. He did not believe that Mihua would betray him and hand over these evidences to the government. Besides, Mihua had no idea where the evidence was stored, but
Don't know how to get it.
Of course, even if it is true, Feng Jingyao will never admit it: "Can I be cured of my sins with these pieces of paper? Are these pieces of paper true or false? Are they forged by you because I, the Feng family, have a prosperous business and a fortune of tens of millions?"
We still don’t know. Furthermore, even if it’s an official’s confession, these officials secretly broke into my Feng family’s house and raped several of my adopted daughters. I swallowed my anger and asked them to write a confession for the sake of my own safety. Isn’t it wrong?
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Song Xiang did not expect Feng Jingyao to deny the evidence outright. Of course, there was no trace in the evidence that Feng Jingyao forced officials to write the confession. When the officials wrote the confession, they only stated how they forced their way into the Feng family's house and wanted to have sex.
To say he is guilty is just Feng Jingyao's fault for covering up. It is only these officials who are really guilty, which is a bit of a headache.
Song Xiang has never encountered such extremely difficult characters before. In his understanding, it is the most basic principle for people to read sages and understand etiquette and shame. He always regards all people as simple as himself.
To say that he is an idiot is really flattering him. In fact, he is just a conservative and rotten scholar. His first prize was also obtained from his younger brother Song Qi. In the imperial examination in the second year of Tiansheng, Song Xiang's younger brother Song Qi was originally a candidate for the imperial examination.
However, the Empress Dowager Liu who was in power at the time disagreed and said that "a younger brother cannot precede his elder brother". Based on the principle of seniority and youth, Song Xiang was arbitrarily determined to be the number one scholar and Song Qi was placed there.
For tenth place.
The world naturally felt aggrieved for Song Qi, so the people praised the two brothers as "double champions" and called them "Great Song Dynasty" and "Little Song Dynasty". In fact, this gave Song Xiang face. If he was talking about champions, he was still his younger brother.
Song Qi's.
Moreover, in terms of talents, Song Xiang was not as good as Song Qi in his knowledge of articles and concise and capable officialdom. However, Song Qi was free and easy, lived a luxurious life, and had many maids and concubines, so he gave people a feeling of being unsteady.
The feeling is that the official is not as big as Song Xiang.
On the other hand, Xiang of the Song Dynasty had a prosperous official career and served as prime minister. In fact, Xiang of the Song Dynasty was cautious and quiet in politics and had little achievements to speak of. However, Qi of the Song Dynasty, whether in court or outside, always made outspoken opinions and had many practical opinions, as he did in his early years.
The "Three Redundancies" and "Three Expenses" theories on the shortcomings of finance and taxation, and the discussion on Hebei's armaments are all thought-provoking and have won praises from enlightened people in the DPRK and China.
But for this kind of Song Qi, Song Xiang was nitpicking and scolding him like a brother. When Song Xiang was still the deputy prime minister, on the night of the Yuan Dynasty, he was reading Zhouyi hard while others called him a friend.
The old scholar who was calling friends to watch lanterns and guess lantern riddles really couldn't take his eyes off him, but he had no right to say anything to others, so he ran to Song Qi and lost his temper and said, "Look at you, you are spending all your time living and drinking without doing your job.
, you don’t study hard, you only know how to enjoy it. Do you still remember the scene when we were studying poetry in the state school to take the exam and eating cold porridge to satisfy our hunger? You have forgotten the time when you were poor."
Song Qi really had no way to deal with this elder brother, but if he was smart, he would have a way to deal with this rotten brother, so he smiled and asked: "Brother, don't you understand why you ate cold porridge back then? If you still eat cold porridge after the imperial examination and high school
Porridge, why did you need to take the exam back then?"
Song Xiang choked on his words and walked away.
Song Xiang is a typical example of studying to death, and this kind of rotten Confucianism is exactly what some people like, so he was able to become the number one scholar, and he was able to enter the two offices in the center of power and become the deputy prime minister. However, this man's ability to govern is really mediocre.
Even if he didn't make any achievements, it would always be a stumbling block. Zhao Zhen was a relatively open-minded emperor, so after taking office, this stumbling block was kicked away.
But this person has never done anything wrong, and he was once the top scholar after all. If he publicly said that he had no ability, wouldn't it be a slap in the face? So he went to Yangzhou, out of sight; he enjoyed the salary of the central government, but he worked as a prefect.
Errands.
Even so, Yangzhou was deteriorating day by day under his rule. In the past three years, this prosperous place could not survive even a famine, and several cancers had developed.
Facing a stubborn person like Feng Jingyao, Song Xiang felt powerless. He thought that as soon as the evidence came out, Feng Jingyao would immediately plead guilty to the law. Didn't he know that the world is not as perfect as it was said in the book? After everything that happened in Yangzhou, Song Xiang also had some self-knowledge.
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Song Xiang looked at Su Jin as if asking for help. Su Jin also understood that if he was asked to interrogate him, he would never be able to find out the reason. There were still many things to be revealed from Feng Jingyao's mouth, such as where food was stored, and what he had done in the past.
The case requires him to admit it, but he has the upper hand from the very beginning. How will it be tried later?
But if Song Xiang didn't speak, Su Jin would not overstep his authority. Song Xiang was the prefect. The prefect had the right to try the case, but he had no rights. If he insisted on stepping forward to arouse Song Xiang's dissatisfaction, it would also arouse everyone's discussion.
I don't understand the rules.
Su Jin was originally a person who ignored the rules, but over the past few months, he had dealt with many officials, large and small, and naturally understood a lot about the rules in the officialdom. These things could be big or small, and it might not seem like it would cause dissatisfaction to others.
It may seem trivial, but it adds up. Once it breaks out, this is one of the sins of being on the line. Su Jin always reminds himself to pay attention to this.
"Special Envoy Su... um... I am feeling a little unwell. I would like to take a rest for a while. I would like to ask the Special Envoy to interrogate me on my behalf. What do you think?"
Song Xiang said it very skillfully. It's not that I don't have the ability to fight with him. I just feel uncomfortable suddenly. You can ask for me while I sit in charge.
Su Jin smiled slightly and said: "Your Excellency, you have to work hard day and night, so you have to take care of yourself. These things should be done by the officials, but it's a pity that the punishment is also a criminal, and the interrogation is unreasonable, which is really difficult."
"Why is it inconsistent with reason? The imperial order made it clear that matters related to food affairs should be dealt with easily. This case is related to food affairs. Your Majesty, please don't refuse. If I hadn't been unwell, I would not have invited your Majesty.
Lawton.”
Su Jin chuckled and said: "In that case, I will inquire on behalf of the Lord Fu. The Lord Fu is giving advice. I am somewhat confident. Come on! Make a cup of hot tea and let the Lord Fu warm up your body."
Su Jin walked towards the case table where the presiding judge was sitting. Song Xiang took the opportunity to hold his stomach and walked to the side table with the support of the yamen servant and sat down. He and Su Jin got off their seats, drank hot tea and took a deep breath. He thought to himself: "
We should have let Su Jin go to trial long ago, so I don’t bother to spend more words with these stubborn people and taint my mouth.”